INTERPROVINCAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1745, 2 June 1888, Page 1

INTERPROVINCAL NEWS.

' i • ' " ■ i— ' i l l u (i;; The Auckland police throated to prosecute small shopkeepers who keapj ypen on. Sunday. ‘ j 1 At a meeting of the Colonial {lnsurance shareholders at Wellington a ’resolution 'providing tliit no'sbareLhldjri after the 31st May be allowed to subscribe for more than 2000 shares was coufirmedr " > Mr Larnach baa no intention of, resig,using bis seat for the Peninsula during the existence of the present Parliament. The proposed arrangement by which the Shaw, Savll and Albion Company’s steamers are to carry Ih® homeward mailswill not come into operation till after the arrival of lh« Company’s August steamer. Memorial stones of the Salvation Aimy barracks at Invercargill were laid on Thursday with a demonstration. The budding will seat 800. About £SO was given on the spot. Daring ths ceremony the buildups scaffolding, on which a number of spectators had climbed, gave way, and they fell twelve feet. All escaped w’lth a l, glib injuries. The police had just warned ihem to come down. A dispute has arisen in Uiined’O between the mas er and workmen, which if not settled will result in a strike* of a serious nature. The has dispute arisen out of a demand of the men for eight hours as a day’s work. The workmen are taking slaps to warn other woikmen to keep away during the dispute. The Auckland Political Pins rice Reform Association have 1 passed a resolution to the effect that in view of the present depressed condition of the industries and commercial interests of the colony, increased taxation is inopportune and calculated to siill further prejudice'’'the welfare of the people, and that a reduction in the expenditure should bs made to baifnee the income and expenditure of the colony. Constable McKnight has visited the vcene of the Arc at De Carteret’s premises, Pnpakura Valley, Auckland, and declares there are no human remains in the debris there, nor f.nj rigus of any. The bones found were probably carried into the hayloft by a dog or cat, and were ordinary meat bone a and not human bones at all. A curious discrepancy is that De Cartliret' stated theie was a skull.-

John Campbell, a man undergoing six months’ imprisonment at Napier, in defau-fc of finding securities to keep the .'pence towards the Rev. Father Atrerne, was found dead in his cell ob Thursday morning, hanging by the neck from the wind nr bars. Deceased had hanged himself with his belt. At the time of his committal bis sandy was oubted. He has bean in g .ol since Frebruary 20tb, and Was , well conducted.

At Christchurch on Wednesday Catharine Pye, 56 years old, a resident of Winslow, was found dead in bed rt the house of William Gunnell, where she was' visiting. At the inquest a verdict; of ’ death from serous apoplexy was returned.